Browse by Subject "race"

Educating the world about people and events of the world is vital to getting people to understand and appreciate diversity. Unfortunately, many events and people of the African American tradition are left out and therefore ...

In the early twentieth century, record companies frequently used the designation “good music” as a catch-all category to describe serious art music selections, and the commercial and cultural value afforded to “good music” ...

Self-segregation, as a pretty new term, being more and more popular and obvious among students especially who are in colleges, which based on nation or race. Usually, people hang out easily with the certain group of people ...

This paper explores interracial roommate relations by looking at how it influences students' overall college experiences. It focuses on how these students are affected emotionally, the levels of contact they assume with ...

“Maybe you're a dreamer. Maybe you're a doer. Maybe you are a little of both. Regardless, once you've decided to attend the University of Illinois, you'll want your living arrangement to match your goals and ambitions—who ...

“Judicial Rhetoric and Radical Politics: Sexuality, Race, and the Fourteenth Amendment” takes up U.S. judicial opinions as performances of sovereignty over the boundaries of legitimate subjectivity. The argumentative choices ...

This research critically analyzes discourses concerning Korean identities in public and private sphere. It focuses on the development of discourses from mono-ethnic to multicultural Korean identities during 1990s-2000s. ...

My research is to show that language differences are a critical factor to self-segregation for international students. Language is the basic tool for people to communicate and to understand each other. International students ...

Illinois was a hostile place for free blacks to live before the Civil War. Its racial laws, built on the principles of white supremacy and exclusivity, were among the most restrictive in the antebellum North. Illinois’s ...

This dissertation offers an anthropological interpretation of cultural discourses about the body found in literature, visual narratives and archival sources throughout 19th century in Spanish colonial Havana. These discourses ...

This article explores issues of gendered, classed and raced identities using examples drawn from my research on a type of online forum known as a mud. I critique previous accounts of research regarding identity online that ...

The study examines the role of language for college students that grew up in African American communities and that are speakers of African American English. The study looked at the participants’ everyday talk and how they ...

How do education policies intended to create equitable educational opportunities for racial minorities in the US unintentionally exacerbate racial inequality? What can we do about it? “Neoliberal Globalization, Model ...

This project investigates the system of reporting acts of hate to authorities on campus and the contrast between attitudes of Champaign-Urbana police with Campus police in handling hate crime. The author seeks to answer ...

The ventricular-vascular coupling ratio is comprised of the ratio of arterial elastance to ventricular elastance. Briefly, arterial elastance (Ea) may be described as total arterial load, and ventricular elastance (Elv) ...